New guidelines for drive-by renal arteriography may lead to an unjustifiable increase in percutaneous intervention

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1528-1530

  Dear, James W ^b   Padfield, Paul L ^c   Webb, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CAPTOPRIL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY ARTERIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; KIDNEY SURGERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 36749094629     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.117275     Document Type: Short Survey

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